The PEN Pod: Tough Questions with Suzanne Nossel
“This [question of surveillance] is something we, as a free expression organization, have concerns with.” More
DARE: Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Government Tracking Journalists and Immigration Advocates through a Secret Database
Leaked documents show the U.S. authorities tracking journalists, lawyers, and immigration advocates at the U.S.-Mexico border. A Florida sixth-grader... More
DARE: Trump Wants the Networks to Carry His Speech Live. They Should Look at These Charts of His Lies.
President Trump prepares to make a speech this evening about the southern U.S. border, a subject on which his falsehoods and dishonesty have escalated... More
DARE: AP, NBC News Tweet Trump Nonsense, Pay Price
Major news organizations come under significant criticism for context-free tweets repeating President Trump’s disputable assertion that new Mueller inves... More
DARE: Pentagon Wants to Predict Anti-Trump Protests Using Social Media Surveillance
Investigation finds that the Pentagon is accelerating efforts to predict and preempt anti-Trump and anti-government protests using social media surveilla... More
DARE: YouTube shooting: Female suspect ‘angry over video postings’
Person who opened fire at YouTube headquarters reported to have believed video site was censoring her. President Trump, who has not held a solo news conference since February 2017,… More
DARE: Winners and losers from Trump’s State of the Union address
President Trump’s first State of the Union address appraised on 2018 scale of truthfulness, divisiveness, and adherence to rule of law. New health care company announced by Amazon and… More
DARE: Steve Bannon Out At Breitbart News
Former White House strategist Steve Bannon is ousted from right-wing media outlet Breitbart after angering Trump with his comments in Michael Wolff's book, Fire and Fury. Trump attorney sues… More
DARE: The Silence Breakers
“The Silence Breakers” who spoke out and set off national reckoning on sexual harassment named 2107 Person of the Year by Time. And the cases mount... More
DARE: Harvey Weinstein’s Army of Spies
Harvey Weinstein hired detectives and undercover agents in deceitful effort to thwart publication of harassment claims by the New York Times and the New... More
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